comes as a response to militants blowing up an israeli border patrol vehicle with an anti-tank missile hamas has promised to retaliate for the violence in pakistan a series of violent attacks across iraq have claimed the lives of seventeen people and injured dozens of others gunmen on motorcycles carried out several target killings with a magazine editor and five seminary students and said to be among the victims the motives for the attacks are not yet known sectarian political and ethnic violence in the city has resulted in nearly two thousand deaths this year. saudi arabia's top spiritual leader has issued an addict's which prohibits any contact with foreign media amid ongoing waves of pro-democracy protests announcing he urged worshipers during friday prayers in the capital riyadh to tell their story their worries directly to authorities the most he said and the international media was unreliable and wanted to destroy their nation's unity. the b.b.c.'s reputation at stake and a huge hits with a reporting scandal forcing its had george and whistle to resign the broadcasters flagship progra